A man and a boy were found guilty today of shouting "shocking and disgusting" homophobic chants at the Portsmouth defender Sol Campbell during a football match.
Ian Trow, 42, of Deanshanger, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and a 14-year-old had pleaded not guilty at Portsmouth magistrates court to indecent chanting. The charges relate to chants made at Campbell during a match against Tottenham Hotspur at Fratton Park, Portsmouth, on 28 September last year.
After a three-hour trial, Georgette Holbrook, chairwoman of the panel, found the two defendants had chanted: "Come on gay boy, that's my gay boy." She said: "We find that the words used were in extremely bad taste, they were inappropriate, shocking and disgusting, and as such they were indecent."
Sophie Stevens, prosecuting, said: "The police and members of the public considered there was significant abuse from the travelling Tottenham supporters, abuse above what is, perhaps wrongly, accepted at a football match."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/15/sol-campbell-chant-guilty-portsmouth
